do you remember a time when it was a better place to live

[opmania]

I remember when news agents had a stand out the front

with Papers under a rock

You took a Paper and left the money on the stand

Now days they would steal the money,the papers and the stand

and throw the rock through the window as they were running away

[j*oono]

I remember how these kind of threads happen every full moon.

[wilk1149]

I remember when you could buy an assault rifle and nit have the government consider you a criminal before you committed a crime

[azureline**]

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@opmania wrote:

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@azureline** wrote:
I remember cousins and friends and others who were not supervised enough and were molested by the neighbour/grandpa/uncle/priest/teacher etc .
Everyone else thought it was safe because they either didn't tell or were not believed or even threatened not to tell.

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Unfortunately children have been molested since the dawn of mankind thats never going to change

at least now there is a chance that they may know that they don't have to suffer in silence

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It has changed.................. people/parents are more aware, we now have mandatory reporting.......we have self protective behaviours taught in schools, at home.

There are many good memories from "the good old days" but like today, we can choose not to remember the bad things, they fade in memory unless we choose to keep them at the forefront.

[polksaladallie]

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@opmania wrote:

I remember when gay was a girls name

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It still is, and it also means happy.

[vicr3000]

It also means somethng else, depending on what era you were brought up in

as was discussing with my GF and her son yesterday.

She found it "offensive" when her sons first used "gay" to describe things.

Different era = different meaning.

[polksaladallie]

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@polksaladallie wrote:

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@opmania wrote:

I remember when gay was a girls name

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It still is, and it also means happy.

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I never use the word in any other context.  My dictionary remains intact.

In the 1970s a common term for a male homosexual was "guy".  That is how they were described in personal ads when seeking each other.

[lionrose.7]

I remember when we used to eat Gaytime ice cream.

Ride every where on our bikes and had to be home by tea time.

Leave the front and back doors open to get a bit of breeze through the house in the summer.

Walk to school not get driven by parents.

And food that tasted like food, real cream and butter

[***super_nova***]

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@lind9650 wrote:

I remember when my children could play with their friends on the Street without being afraid of being run over by a hooligan driver.

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Well, yes there were not as many cars on the road.  Not everybody had the convenience of having car for every adult member of the family.  Street is not the plae for kids to play, and never was.

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@lind9650 wrote:

I can remember walking home from work at midnight and never being afraid when I heard footsteps behind me.

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That is just because you were young and naive; it was always dangerous for young women to walk alone at night.  Crime is down but the way we are informed nowadays means we are more aware what happened.  It was never safe to send kids alone to the beach, they could drown.  And of course, remember the Beaumont children , Joanne Ratcliffe, 11, and Kirste Gordon, 4,  and Linda Stillwell, aged eight, in St Kilda, to name just some.

As far as buses blowing up goes, there were always conflicts around the world, but Australia was so far away that it took some time before any pictures made it here, or IF they did.  And Australians did not feel connected to the rest of the world.  But world is smaller now, with just about everybody able to travel, and news is here in its full gory reality  as it is happenings.  We are just lot more insecure and frightened.

[sandypas]

In the past, needs were simpler and fewer, there was less money and expectations were not as high.  You worked, and waited for things instead of having to have them immediately. Technology has changed our lives immensely.  My parents had no electricity or gas bills - but had to buy kero for the fridge (ice before that), shellite for the iron (flat iron on the stove top before that) & lamps and wood fires for cooking and heating.  Washing was done in the copper and water heated in the copper for a bath.

Gaytime icecreams are still available and a favourite with some of our family.  It's not long ago I asked my daughter (who is gay) if she would like a gaytime.  We all had a laugh .

Life was good because it was less stressful, more trusting and drugs were not evident which have cause most of the violence we have today.

[vicr3000]

Polks

In the 1970's, A common term for a male homosexual was gay.